Iron County register., 1887-04-28

exceedingly anxious to prove tia
Catholics owe more temporal allegianc
to the bishop of Rome than to the con
stitntion of the United States. TX
ought to hear some of my Catholi
neighbors come down on Corrigan. III
would conclude that all Catholics ar
not puppets to jump when some prelat
pulls the strings and who consider i
their duty in all things to pay and obey
I've formed better opinion of Catho
lies than / had before this McGlynl
embroglio. No wonder I came to th,
conclusion that "X" was youngste
with the smell of the lyceum still OF
his clothes; and ] really expected he't
come at me with some proposition
about pin having ten points or {
scientific argument about Moses being
found 10 the bulrushes.
While exploring the field of political
or social economy with a George man
my dear *" keep an eye on the
meaning of words, and have a diction.
ary handy. If I should now, in April,
assert that / am utterly and totally
opposed to taxing land, dont't go into
connIptions, but look closer and see il
you have not mistaken metaphor for
green goose.
While sitting alone one whole night
by the bedside of poor landlord-rid-
den neighbor's sick boy, I wrote down
my notions on the money question in
the form of a set of resolutions, which
were so well liked, by some green
hackers in school district, that they
carried them before large meeting at
the courthouse, passed them without
change or addition of single word, and
only one Or two dissenting votes, pre-
sentesl in the house of Representatives
at Washington and printed in the
Congressional Globe; but I would as
soon think Of curing bad case of hog
cholera by rubbing poke juice on the
end of tho hogs tail as to attempt to
remedy existing social evils by any
scheme of finance or trade. Kellogg's
Labor and Capital" is under my hand
and have waded through it and ad-
NIT that the money question is a very
great question and am glad to see you
have gotten that far along; but, "X,"
what would you do if you had all the
money in the world and had all the
land, and my jimaround, the sheriff,
should serve you with a notice to quit?
You could't crawl into hole in the
ground, nor live in the clouds, because.
you know, "cGjus ct sotuna, ejus 0d
usgue" Wouldn't it make you think
of that text which says, sThe beasts of
the fields have dens and the fowls of
the air have nests, but most poor dev-
lis Of American citizens have no where
to lay their heads?" If the will derness
had Teen parcelled out as private prop
erty, among as comparatively few Jews
as the evil of the u. S. is parcelled out
in, what good would it have done the
rest Of the Israelites for God to rain
mamma upon land that did not belong
to them? What good would it do you
if God should rain double eagles upon
my land? 1 would not put them in the
products of your labor while you insist
upon my being fined for employing
you, but would put them into death
grips on more land to keep people from
themselves or being EN-.
ployed, except on such terms as /, and
those like me, chose to grant. I'd be-
come railroad magnate or coal
baron, and fleece those, those who had
to ship freight, to pay rent, or / would
open one coal mine and buy up a thous-
and more to prevent them from being
opened, so that I could control the
trade for my own profit. Business is
is business, you know; it has no senti-
ment of morality. You don't seem to
read the Standard, Henry Georges
paper, or you would have known that
he had dropped the tenement house
fad and was now on the Richard Rob-
ert Randall farm racket, which antici-
pates you again and shows beyond all
question that you have hitherto your
cart before your horse, and that it is
the monopoly of land that gives the
of its product money. It is
the monopoly oi land in the country
that drives population into the city and
into the asylums, hospitals, and the
grave, and gives property in land in
cities such enormous values. Drive
the dead-head landlords out of the
country and the populations would
tend from city to suburban or to rural
life. Farmers, as a rule, drudge like
slaves; they pay the most niggardly
wages for the hardest work, and even
their own children desert the farm at
the first opportunity. Not one in
twenty can give his family food that
in quality is most conducive to health,
and very small portion of them own
the land they till. In no country in
the world is the rural population being
faster reduced to condition of heritage.
My idea of a happy life was always
the Brahminical one, of the one man
I: sd Irwin n tho ono Uanap i'm